Analysis of The Truth of Woman
Sir Walter Scott 1771 (College Wynd, Edinburgh) – 1832 (Abbotsford, Roxburghshire)
Woman's faith, and woman's trust -
Write the characters in the dust;
Stamp them on the running stream,
Print them on the moon's pale beam,
And each evanescent letter
Shall be clearer, firmer, better,
And more permanent, I ween,
Than the thing those letters mean.
I have strain'd the spider's thread
'Gainst the promise of a maid;
I have weigh'd a grain of sand
'Gainst her plight of heart and hand;
I told my true love of the token,
How her faith proved light, and her word was broken:
Again her word and truth she plight,
And I believed them again ere night.
Scheme | AABBCCDD XXEEDDFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10100001 1110101 1110111 0101010 11101010 0110011 1011101 111011 1010101 1110111 1011101 111111010 10111001110 01010111 010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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